¹⁷ “What is mankind that you make so much of them,
    that you give them so much attention,^(A)

¹⁶ how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt,^(A)
    who drink up evil^(B) like water!^(C)

¹⁴ if I say to corruption,^(A) ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm,^(B) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

⁶ how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,^(A) who is only a worm!”^(B)

⁶ But I am a worm^(A) and not a man,
    scorned by everyone,^(B) despised^(C) by the people.